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Labor with
laughter
...page 4
Wildcats challenge
*' the Bulls
...page 6
AT A GLANCE 2
EDITORIAL 3
BUSINESS&SCIENCE 4
SPORTS 6
CLASSIFIEDS 9
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VOL 81 ISSUE 61
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28,2011
WWW.WSUSIGNPOST.COIV
Engineering with Weber daughters
WSU holds its second
parent-and-daughter
engineering day
By Thomas Alberts
sr. news reporter I The Signpost
Tables in the Hurst Center for Lifelong Learning were
covered with eggshells, yolk, cotton balls and straws on
Saturday as young girls and their parents or grandparents
competed in Weber State University's second parent-
daughter engineering day. The project was organized by
the WSU Society of Women Engineers and sponsored by
the WSU Office of Career and Technical Education. Several
activities were staged to show attendees how to construct
safely helmets and simple hydraulic cranes.
A free lunch and T-shirts were given to participants.
Awards were also given out to parents and daughters who
were successful in the competitions. Event organizers and
parents said they hoped that the day would provide young
girls with knowledge of the opportunities they might have in
the field of engineering.
"The biggest thing is to get the girls interested in
PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD I THE SIGNPOST
A young girl participates in WSU's second parent-and-daughter engineering day. c D K
GRE changing soon
New test format starting in August;
students need to prepare
By ShayLynne Clark
news editor I The Signpost
Students preparing for the
Graduate Record Exam, or GRE,
might be in for a big surprise. The
test is currently undergoing
the biggest change in GRE
history, affecting both
question styles and topics
covered on the exam,
J and will go into effect
—*—■- on August 1.
These changes will
- profoundly affect how
students prepare for
the GRE by expanding the
content covered by the test and
the depth in which students
will need to explain those
concepts.
"Basically every aspect of
the test is changing in some
way," said Lee Weiss, director of
graduate programs at Kaplan
Test Prep, as well as a veteran
GRE instructor. "The scoring
scale is changing, the type of
is changing, the question
are changing dramatically,
the way you use the test is
changing a lot. Really, it's
going to be a very, very
different test; it's going
I to be a longer test and
tougher test starting
August 1."
A company called
Educational Testing
.. Services, or ETS, creates
the GRE. The GRE is
necessary to get into
most graduate school
programs, and it can also be used to get into many business
school programs.
"This company is making these test changes for a couple
of big reasons," Weiss said. "Number one, the GRE is trying
to compete head to head with the GMAT, so they're making
the test a little bit more like the GMAT — actually, a lot more
like the GMAT in many ways — and they are doing that so
that more people will take the GRE to apply to business
school."
The GRE is accepted by 40 business programs around the
world, including some top business programs, although
the GMAT is still the main test used to get into business
school.
"Our surveys of admissions counselors seem to say
that business schools prefer the GMAT," Weiss said. "Over
the next few years, and after the new test is released, that
might change, but our recommendation right now is that if
you're serious about business school, and business school
only, then take the GMAT, but if you're interested in going
to graduate school but are also applying to some business
schools, the GRE is the better test for you."
On the verbal part of the GRE, ETS is doing away with
the short verbal questions on the current test, on topics
like antonyms and analogies, and are replacing them with
short verbal questions involving more contextual cues.
"Right now, you need a very good vocabulary," Weiss
said, "... and you still need a very good vocabulary on the
new questions — one thing that makes the new question
types a little harder is they often have more choices."
Text completion, a question type being added to the
new GRE, is a question involving up to three blanks, each
having three separate answer choices.
"So if you were trying to guess, or you were unsure
of the answer, and you had to eliminate, you'd
still only have a 1 in 27 chance of guessing
correctly," Weiss said. "It's a tougher
question type than what you're
seeing on the current test."
Another new verbal question -'^_ ^
'■- /fey
called sentence equivalence is /$.]
being added to the new GRE.
Weber to
host its
first day
of ethics
By Corie Holmes
asst. news editor I The Signpost
Weber State University will be holding its
first ever Ethics Day, consisting of a series of
panel discussions, a scholarship banquet,
online surveys and professors discussing
ethical situations. Ethics Day will be sponsored by Zions Bank and put on by the Richard Richards Institute for Politics, Decency
and Ethical Conduct.
Nolan Karras, the chair of the committee board, said the primary reason for this
project is to inform people of WSU's and the
Richard Richards Institute's policy on ethical
issues.
"Ethics and decency in politics is a focus
of Weber State," Karras said. "It helps educate the student body and public about the
fact that there is a group anxious about ethics. Part of it is exposure of an institute and
what its mission is. Everyone has ethical issues that they will have to deal with, and so
See Ethics page 5
See GRE page

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Labor with
laughter
...page 4
Wildcats challenge
*' the Bulls
...page 6
AT A GLANCE 2
EDITORIAL 3
BUSINESS&SCIENCE 4
SPORTS 6
CLASSIFIEDS 9
•
cv
VOL 81 ISSUE 61
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28,2011
WWW.WSUSIGNPOST.COIV
Engineering with Weber daughters
WSU holds its second
parent-and-daughter
engineering day
By Thomas Alberts
sr. news reporter I The Signpost
Tables in the Hurst Center for Lifelong Learning were
covered with eggshells, yolk, cotton balls and straws on
Saturday as young girls and their parents or grandparents
competed in Weber State University's second parent-
daughter engineering day. The project was organized by
the WSU Society of Women Engineers and sponsored by
the WSU Office of Career and Technical Education. Several
activities were staged to show attendees how to construct
safely helmets and simple hydraulic cranes.
A free lunch and T-shirts were given to participants.
Awards were also given out to parents and daughters who
were successful in the competitions. Event organizers and
parents said they hoped that the day would provide young
girls with knowledge of the opportunities they might have in
the field of engineering.
"The biggest thing is to get the girls interested in
PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD I THE SIGNPOST
A young girl participates in WSU's second parent-and-daughter engineering day. c D K
GRE changing soon
New test format starting in August;
students need to prepare
By ShayLynne Clark
news editor I The Signpost
Students preparing for the
Graduate Record Exam, or GRE,
might be in for a big surprise. The
test is currently undergoing
the biggest change in GRE
history, affecting both
question styles and topics
covered on the exam,
J and will go into effect
—*—■- on August 1.
These changes will
- profoundly affect how
students prepare for
the GRE by expanding the
content covered by the test and
the depth in which students
will need to explain those
concepts.
"Basically every aspect of
the test is changing in some
way," said Lee Weiss, director of
graduate programs at Kaplan
Test Prep, as well as a veteran
GRE instructor. "The scoring
scale is changing, the type of
is changing, the question
are changing dramatically,
the way you use the test is
changing a lot. Really, it's
going to be a very, very
different test; it's going
I to be a longer test and
tougher test starting
August 1."
A company called
Educational Testing
.. Services, or ETS, creates
the GRE. The GRE is
necessary to get into
most graduate school
programs, and it can also be used to get into many business
school programs.
"This company is making these test changes for a couple
of big reasons," Weiss said. "Number one, the GRE is trying
to compete head to head with the GMAT, so they're making
the test a little bit more like the GMAT — actually, a lot more
like the GMAT in many ways — and they are doing that so
that more people will take the GRE to apply to business
school."
The GRE is accepted by 40 business programs around the
world, including some top business programs, although
the GMAT is still the main test used to get into business
school.
"Our surveys of admissions counselors seem to say
that business schools prefer the GMAT," Weiss said. "Over
the next few years, and after the new test is released, that
might change, but our recommendation right now is that if
you're serious about business school, and business school
only, then take the GMAT, but if you're interested in going
to graduate school but are also applying to some business
schools, the GRE is the better test for you."
On the verbal part of the GRE, ETS is doing away with
the short verbal questions on the current test, on topics
like antonyms and analogies, and are replacing them with
short verbal questions involving more contextual cues.
"Right now, you need a very good vocabulary," Weiss
said, "... and you still need a very good vocabulary on the
new questions — one thing that makes the new question
types a little harder is they often have more choices."
Text completion, a question type being added to the
new GRE, is a question involving up to three blanks, each
having three separate answer choices.
"So if you were trying to guess, or you were unsure
of the answer, and you had to eliminate, you'd
still only have a 1 in 27 chance of guessing
correctly," Weiss said. "It's a tougher
question type than what you're
seeing on the current test."
Another new verbal question -'^_ ^
'■- /fey
called sentence equivalence is /$.]
being added to the new GRE.
Weber to
host its
first day
of ethics
By Corie Holmes
asst. news editor I The Signpost
Weber State University will be holding its
first ever Ethics Day, consisting of a series of
panel discussions, a scholarship banquet,
online surveys and professors discussing
ethical situations. Ethics Day will be sponsored by Zions Bank and put on by the Richard Richards Institute for Politics, Decency
and Ethical Conduct.
Nolan Karras, the chair of the committee board, said the primary reason for this
project is to inform people of WSU's and the
Richard Richards Institute's policy on ethical
issues.
"Ethics and decency in politics is a focus
of Weber State," Karras said. "It helps educate the student body and public about the
fact that there is a group anxious about ethics. Part of it is exposure of an institute and
what its mission is. Everyone has ethical issues that they will have to deal with, and so
See Ethics page 5
See GRE page